A new project has once again been successfully approved with BrainLog as its main coordinator and beneficiary. Titled “Peer mentoring for prison staff” (M4Pris), the project aims to design a peer mentoring program for prison staff with the intent of increasing the staff’s knowledge driven by a green training methodology. Furthermore, the project focuses on inclusion by focusing on a field in which intervention is sometimes scarce, by addressing a lack of tools and information in the field itself. At the same time, the project is innovative, as it tackles the challenge of a lack of empirical evidence within the field. On the other hand, the project is flexible and tailored to each prison staff member’s needs and individual necessities.

For this project, BrainLog is proud to partner with:

• Fængselsforbundet (Danish Prison Federation) from Denmark
• Approximar – Cooperativa De Solidariedade Social- Portugal, INÍCIO
• National Union of Prison Workers (Sindicatul Național al Polițiștilor de Penitenciare) from Romania, Sindicatul Național al Polițiștilor de Penitenciare – Sindicat SNPP – București
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from Belgium KU Leuven
• Asociatia Vis Juventum from Romania
• Athens Lifelong Learning Institute from Greece Home – Athens Lifelong Learning

The main products of the project will aim at developing:

• Blueprint of Prison Staff Mentoring across European countries
• Peer Mentoring Programme for Prison Staff
• Training course for mentoring Coordinators in European prisons

BrainLog is the responsible coordinator for Work Package 1 – Project Communication & Management, which implies project control in terms of deadlines and establishment of activities and expenses, along with management and quality assurance regarding on-time delivery. Among other goals, BrainLog and its partners wish to deliver a quality training course for prison staff. This product will improve the prison environment by increasing the team’s knowledge.